Thursday, April 28, 2011

Stonewalled Meteor / Rusty Taylor

Stonewalled Meteor

Spiraling slowly through the cold void of space,
a pitted fragment from a once volatile star
dances past unimaginable images of grace
and chaos with home-woven dreams of a vast galaxy far
from whence it came. The gray meteor gleams
in vivid reddish hues as it brilliantly blazes by
a fiery orange orb as perfect as celestial dreams
dreamt by those of us not allowed to fly.

Approaching a planet blue, green, and white,
the dead star again flames to life as it flies
into the dense atmosphere. From the surface, its fall
becomes a beautiful silver string of light.
Years later, a smooth stone from distant skies
becomes part of Frost's New England stone wall.